Beware, don't update to 0.93, found massive issue in the generated code!

  • I have been socking my head against a wall for 6 hours now.

    One of my remaining shared hosting website on a large host would show all sorts of craziness: broken CSS, endless errors, validation nightmares…
    Plus the website scored C on Page Speed with massive red warnings.

    It’s odd, because usually I tend to tame W3 Total Cache quite well.

    I have disabled everything in it except page / browser cache and minify and found out this HUGE generated code issue.

    Whereas using v. 0.9.2.11 (including re-installing it after removing 0.9.3) W3 TC generates this code:

    Couple of header lines

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://www.domain.tld/directory/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/d2874/default.include.f06f00.css" media="all" /><meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
...

    in version 0.9.3 it generates this wrong code:

    Couple of header lines

<link
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://www.domain.tld/directory/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/d2874/default.include.a0952a.css" media="all" /><meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

...

<link
rel='stylesheet' id='admin-bar-css'  href='https://www.domain.tld/directory/wp-includes/css/admin-bar.min.css?ver=3.6' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='contact-form-7-css' href='https://www.domain.tld/directory/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=3.5.2' type='text/css' media='all' />
<link rel='stylesheet' id='edd-styles-css'  href='https://www.domain.tld/directory/wp-content/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/templates/edd.min.css?ver=1.7.2' type='text/css' media='all' />

    Yes, you saw it right. 0.9.3 creates the minified file and then it imports every minified file a second time, like it is a non cached website that loads all the CSS and JS one by one. Plus, disregarding settings, it also adds a ?ver=N.N.N suffix to each, to annoy search engines as much as possible.

    This duplication of course causes all sorts of disasters, double the bandwidth consumption and more http connections than a non cached website.

    Therefore I warmly suggest anyone seeing oddities in their website since installing 0.9.3 to see if it’s duplicating CSS and JS files like it did to me.

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  • Thanks very much for posting, but the real question is:
    Why has the plug-in developer not fixed 0.9.3?

    This version has been out for months and many users have reported problems with minify.

    I am very reticent to manually patch complex plugins with unofficial code, but yet the developer is nowhere to be seen…

    Has this plugin been abandoned??

    Hi everyone, has anybody upgraded yet to the new 0.9.4 version of W3TC and seen if the problem with minification was fixed?

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